Oddly thins question made me almost immediately think of the end of Brian Eno's "Blank Frank" : "Blank Frank is the siren, he's the air-raid, he's the crater. He's on the menu, on the table, he's the knife and he's the waiter.

Because here's the thing; it seems to me that bitcoin is the protection from political upheaval, and bitcoin IS the political upheaval.